Psychodrama-Gruppenpsychotherapie mit alten Menschen im stationären Langzeitbereich

This article in the journal Zeitschrift fürPsychodrama und Soziometrie deals with psychodrama group therapy for people of old age. At the beginning, essential neurophysiological principles for understanding neuroplasticity of the brain, which enables developments and changes in human experience and behavior into old age, are briefly explained. The following is a report about one Psychodrama group therapy with old people in a Lower Austrian care and support center. The necessary adjustments and modifications to the psychodrama techniques and the process in psychodrama group therapy with elderly people are presented and illustrated with some case vignettes.